Choosing the "best" of Johann Sebastian Bach's nearly 200 sacred cantatas is a daunting task, as each one seems perfect. But three leading Bach experts took up the challenge. Peter Wollny, director of ...

“For the glory of God alone.” With these words, Bach signed off each of his two hundred sacred cantatas. But with so many to choose from, it’s hard to know where to begin. Our guide lifts the lid on a ...

On Saturday, St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church will resonate with the sacred music of Johann Sebastian Bach and the voices of the Yale Voxtet — an ensemble of eight singers in the early music voice ...

Modern biographers of the great classical composers have often been reluctant to concede the sincerity of their subjects’ assertions of religious belief. Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, ...

Johann Sebastian Bach had an explosively productive year when he started working as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. This DW Festival Concert episode from the Bach Festival presents some of his creative, ...

As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...

A jobbing composer under pressure to produce a constant stream of music; an artist and visionary reaching the divine and speaking directly to the heart of the human experience: Bach’s sacred music is ...

Johann Sebastian Bach lost both of his parents when he was nine and watched ten of his children die young. He was, in other words, well acquainted with death, and may have been uncommonly sensitive to ...

Bach Collegium Japan's deservedly acclaimed project to record all of Bach's cantatas has reached volume 51, which turns out to be an especially vibrant and generously filled collection of sacred ...

Portland’s own Bach Cantata Choir will sing in Leipzig, Germany, as part of the 2024 Leipzig Bach Festival, the preeminent festival centered on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The festival ...